Yi Ling (Chinese: 伊玲, born 1928, Jiaxing, China), formerly known as Qian Jinfan (Chinese: 钱今凡), is the oldest known transgender person in China.^[1][2][3] She started living as a woman at age 80, and had sex-reassignment surgery in 2010. Yi first came out publicly as a transgender woman in 2012.^[1][2][4]

Yi works as a calligrapher and art critic, and was once a government official.^[2] In 2009, she submitted a declaration letter to the Foshan Culture and Media Bureau, where she had worked before retiring; at that time she was starting to take hormones to enlarge her breasts, and to wear women's clothes.^[1][3] The government did not lower her pension or refuse to allow her to attend conferences.^[3] In 2010 she wrote another letter to inform the authorities that she was a woman.^[1] Yi Ling has a son, and has been married to a woman, Liang, since the age of 54.^[1][3]